CORRUPTION
July/August 2004
Strengthening African Leadership
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 4, volume 83
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Poor leadership has been the depressing norm in Africa for decades. But as a bold new initiative by a group of past and present African leaders takes off, good governance may finally come to the continent.
Summer 2004
Weak and Failing States: Critical new Security Issues
Journal Article, Turkish Policy Quarterly, issue 2, volume 3
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Rotberg argues that failing states are a particular worry to the security of the twenty-first century.
Summer 2004
Leadership in Africa
Journal Article, Chimera, USA/Africa Institute, issue 2, volume 2
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Africa's rampant conflict (in recent months in the western Sudan and in
Uganda) and strikingly slow economic development (as compared to Asia and Latin America) stems in large part from poor governance and deficient leadership.
February 28, 2004
To Save Haiti, Aristide Must Go
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
To Save Haiti
January 12, 2004
Aristide's Failed Promise
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
TWO HUNDRED years old and still suffering -- that is the sad tale of Haitiand Haitians during this poignant bicentennial month.
October, 2003
The Roots of Africa's Leadership Defecit
Journal Article, Compass: A Journal of Leadership, issue 1, volume 1
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Leadership in Africa is typified more by disfiguring examples --
the Idi Amins and Robert Mugabes -- than by positive role models
such as Nelson Mandela and Seretse Khama.
September 1, 2003
Political Prosecutions Threaten Russia's Ambitions
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal Europe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
It has been over a month since Platon Lebedev, a key figure in Russia's most valuable company and biggest oil producer Yukos, was abruptly and publicly arrested. And while the initial shock has worn off, the implications of what is seen by most as a Kremlin attack on one of Russia's most successful oligarchs remain serious
August 19, 2003
Liberia: A Potential Model for Success
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Now that Charles Taylor has left Monrovia to President Moses Blah, reducing warfare in Liberia is a present possibility...
December 2, 2002
Rating Africa
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Strengthening African governance requires a new method of comparing those nations who deliver essential public goods to their citizens against those failing to perform well or at all. Africa declared in July that it would monitor and improve its national forms of governance. Now it says that it will not.
November 25, 2002
A Yardstick for the Best and Worst of Africa
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Now that the New Partnership for Africa's Development has reneged on its original plan to subject the character and quality of national governance in Africa to peer review, the need for a method to improve the way the continent governs itself is more urgent than ever.
